Yakuza 0
In December 1988, yakuza
Kazuma
Kiryu is framed for
murder in an empty lot in
Kamurochō,
Tokyo. As the
Empty Lot is the last piece
of land needing
to be
purchased before the
Tojo Clan can redevelop
the area,
it has become the
target of Dojima Family patriarch
Sohei
Dojima, believing obtaining
it will grant him enough power
and
influence to become Tojo Clan chairman.
To protect his
adoptive father, Shintaro Kazama,
from punishment, Kiryu
leaves the Dojima Family.
In Sotenbori, ex-yakuza Goro Majima
is forced to run a cabaret club, as
punishment
for his involvement in the
Ueno-Seiwa
assassination in 1985. Per
the orders of
his former patriarch Futoshi
Shimano, Majima
is under constant
surveillance by Shimano's
oath brother,
Tsukasa Sagawa, a member of the
Omi
Alliance, the Tojo Clan's rivals.
Following
a new order from Shimano,
Sagawa offers Majima
a chance to rejoin
the Shimano Family by
assassinating Makoto,
who suffers from
psychogenic blindness.
Yakuza 0 is an action-adventure game
set in an
open world environment and
played from a
third-person
perspective. The game takes place
from
December 1988 to January 1989,
in Kamurochō
and Sotenbori,
fictionalized recreations of Tokyo's
Kabukichō and Osaka's Dōtonbori areas
respectively.
The player controls
series protagonist Kazuma Kiryu
and recurring character Goro Majima,
alternating
between the two at
predeterminedpoints during the story.